v, 218 pages including index. "The increase in world wide travel and migration is making it steadily more important for groups such as general medical practitioners, hospital doctors and diagnostic pathologists to recognize and identify a variety of parasitic infections. In 'Parasites and Human Disease' emphasis is placed on the biology and transmission of the parasites concerned , on laboratory and clinical diagnosis, and on therapy. Attention is also focused on those medical conditions that are likely to affect people from the tropics arriving in temperate areas" (front flap)